Quarterly Growth Gives China Boost

BEIJING—China's economic growth accelerated in the fourth quarter of 2012, confirming a rebound for the world's second-largest economy after a more than two-year slowdown.

The country's gross domestic product rose by 7.9% from a year earlier in the fourth quarter, the National Bureau of Statistics said Friday. That was up from 7.4% growth in the third quarter and slightly above expectations for a 7.8% rise, according to the median...